Erin

I keep having dreams about Erin Cushman. She was Erin Rogers when I knew her. I haven't seen her in probably 5+ years, but we were good friends in high school and into college.

She and her husband lost her newborn baby a few months ago, and ever since, I randomly have dreams about her.

I've had 5 or 6 random dreams about her. Every time I have one, I wake up and think, "Oy! That was from God! I need to pray for her!" which is odd for me because I don't put that kind of weight or purpose behind any of my other dreams. But for some reason I feel like God gives me dreams about her so that I will pray.

In fact, last month I had a sad dream about Erin and Blair, woke up praying for them, then saw on Erin's fb that that day was the 3 month anniversary of the loss of their baby. Doesn't it blow your mind to see God work like that? I have virtually no connection to her anymore, yet He has laid it on my heart to be burdened for them. It's incredible.

Last night I had a dream that I was finally going to see her in real life for the first time years. There were lots of old North Highlands people there like Sadie and Pam Andersen. I talked to them, but every time I looked at Erin my eyes started welling up (aaand they are right now just thinking about it). When I finally got my chance to see her, I hugged her so tight and just sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. I don't know that we even talked. I just cried. Then I woke up. It was 5am and my eyes were soaking wet. I have never had a dream where I've been crying in a dream and woke to find that I was crying in real life too. I grabbed my phone and wrote on her facebook wall that I was praying for her, then rolled over and prayed for her until I fell asleep again.